Super

For Sam

Chapter 8: For Sam

I squirted the hair dye goop into my gloved hands and glared at my own mirrored reflection. Since Ashley had forcibly given me two days off after her big reveal I had really let myself go. Usually with two days off I would have made plans of some kind with friends, but this was different. I had too much on my mind. I knew something, an unbelievably huge secret that I not only couldn't share but really shouldn't have been told in the first place. I'm not anything special, I'm not like her. I sighed and rubbed my hands together and slowly but surely started to rub the dull brown dye into my bright blue and eccentric hair. No matter what I did, what brand I bought, the dye always seemed to wear itself out within two days' time. If this kept up I would be spending more than I make in average week which mean's eventually I'd be back to living with my parents. I shuddered at the thought.

Nothing much happened after Ashley practically announced that she was Nebula. In fact, she didn't even speak at all about it. She cut the super hero hidey hole tour off short and sent me on my merry way. Having no other real choice, I went resentfully back to my apartment and back to bed, passing out as soon as my body hit the mattress. When I woke up at twelve the next day I found a message on my cell that told me, no, ordered me to stay home for the next two days. So here I was on the morning of day three getting ready at five am, the crack of dawn, just so I can put some stupid dye in my hair. A knock sounded at the bathroom door and I swatted the open bottle of dye off the sink. It flew through the air, bounced off of the wall, then fell to the floor. Brown, jell like goop, started oozing from the bottle onto the tiled bathroom floor. I swore, snatching some toilet paper off of the role and stopped the liquid from spreading.

"Shit, crap, uh Cara hold on a sec okay?" Cara groaned outside the door. I quickly scraped up the goop and tossed the nasty toilet paper into the trash. I opened the door and there stood Cara looking well, very un Cara like. Her hair was a rat's nest, she had big bags under her eyes and she had a huge pimple on her chin. "Are you okay?" She glared up at me looking a lot like the grudge than stomped past me into the bathroom, shoving me out, slamming the door hard behind her. "Hey! Hey, what the hell do you think you're doing? I'm not done Cara! Cara-"She kicked the door and I jumped back. Oh she was pissed off about something. "Uh Okay, I guess...just...please hurry alright!" I sighed a walked back to my room leaving the door open.

What's up with her anyway? I shrugged, plopped down onto my unmade bed and started skimming through the channels. I found an old timey TV station and started watching something called "Green Acers." I had no idea what was going on but it kind of looked like it could be a farm. I watched for ten minutes and learned that the two main characters were named Lisa and Oliver. Another five minutes passed at I figured out that Lisa wasn't a big fan of country living. A half our later the episode ended and Cara was still in the bathroom. I hoped up from my bed, waddled down the hall and knocked on the bathroom door. She opened the door looking perfect without a hair out of place. She'd put on her make up and her pimple had magically disappeared. But her eyes, at least to me, looked a little bit red.

"Are you okay?" I asked and she nodded plastering a fake smile on her face. Oh god, she was totally not okay. "Cara."

"I'm fine, do we have any cereal left?"

"Uh yeah, mom brought some over yesterday- Cara wait!" But Cara didn't wait. As soon as she heard the word yeah she took off down the hall and disappeared into my tiny kitchen. I sighed then stepped into the bathroom. It took another hour to finish the hair dyeing possess which I knew like the back of my hand. After that I just went through my typical work day routine. I got dressed, put on a bit of makeup than messed with my hair and tried to make it somewhat presentable. By the time I had finished up it was 7:14 and Cara along with half of my Cereal was gone. I made myself breakfast than, when the time came, I grabbed my keys and started making my way to work. The traffic wasn't amazing but at least it wasn't grid lock.